Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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“So,” I say, actually relaxed, looking at him from beneath half–lidded eyes. “How did a nice boy like you get mixed up in all of this organized crime, anyway? Were you born to it, like me?”

“Nah,” he says, smiling at me indulgently and leaning a Mile

closer as well.

Then, to my surprise and pleasure, he begins to tell me his life

story.

I find myself paying rapt attention to Ivan’s story for the next half hour, sipping on the glass of tequila that the waiter again delivers, savoring the bite and the taste. He’s actually really, really interesting a totally self–made guy, climbing up through the

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ranks with nothing but sheer will, determination, and cleverness.

Despite myself, I’m impressed. Before all of this I had thought 1 liked the kind of prince–charming guys who would politely deliver you a rose and ask you, tentatively, if you’d be interested in being

courted.

But as I listen to Ivan, and let my eyes rove over his muscles and

his tattoos…I wonder, a little, if my tastes are changing.

As I consider it, my mind flashes – unwillingly – to Kent for a moment as well. He doesn’t have any tattoos, I note, or at least,

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none that I can see – but otherwise, these two are pretty similar…

that moment, a slow smile building on his face. He intuits, I think, that I like what I see. That I am, begrudgingly,

him see me do it.

for a moment as his eyes flash to my front teeth pressed lightly against the

story. Pretending that he wasn’t distracted, though we

was.

think, I like that. I like that, maybe, a little too

is going

jump in my seat, looking up at the fire–lit person standing in front of me –

When had the sun gone down –

that it’s Daniel standing there – his shirtless form

sitting up straight –

react.

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arm and pulling me up from my seat. “We’re

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standing up. “We were just talking-

murmurs, dragging me

in fact, a little

against the hand wrapped around my upper arm. “Let me go.”

Fay,” he says, still pissed off. “Do you even

Who you were talking to?”

just Ivan,” I say –

repeats, whirling on me.

to see that everyone is staring at

mouth to respond

guy who tried to kill us not too

honestly don’t

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daughter’s arm, Mr. Lippert,”

father standing there, glaring at